Calderdale Libraries, Museums and Arts are holding their 4th Short Story Competition.

• First prize - £300
• Second prize - £100
• Runners-up - £50.

The winners will also get the chance to have their stories read out at a library event.

Stories must be no longer than 3,000 words, and each entry accompanied by an entrance form and a fee of £3.

The Judges

Entries will be judged by Tiffany Murray and Alan Mahar.

Tiffany Murray is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's M.A. fiction programme and is currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Glamorgan.

Tiffany's short fiction has appeared in Pretext, Mslexia and New Welsh Review. She has worked as an editor (Pretext 8 with Helon Habila), and conducts writing courses for The Taliesen Trust, The Arvon Foundation and Write by the Sea|. Her most recent novel is Diamond Star Halo (Portobello Books, January 2010). Her first, Happy Accidents (Harper Perennial, 2005), was published to excellent reviews and short-listed for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

Alan Mahar has been publishing director of Tindal Street Press since it started in 1998, since when a quarter of its 48 titles have been listed for national literary prizes.

He has worked as a library assistant, a college lecturer, copywriter, creative writing tutor, as well as being a published short story writer and novelist in his own right, with Flight Patterns (Gollancz,1999)and After the Man Before (Methuen, 2002), but is now content with publishing prizewinning fiction by new authors.

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